Useful links

• Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG). The group is an non-government organisation dedicated to studying waders (otherwise known as shorebirds) throughout the East-Asian Australasian Flyway. There are about 330 members, of which 90 are from Asia.

• Bird Observation & Conservation Australia (BOCA)
• Birds Australia
• Birds Korea. Learn about some of the habitat loss happening in the Yellow sea (sign a petition etc).  Saemanguem is the name of the area that has been reclaimed in Korea, resulting in the loss of habitat used by over 100,000 migratory shorebirds as they refuel on their long migrations

• Broome Bird Observatory
• Birds SA
• Conservation Volunteers Australia (Revive Our Wetlands Program)
• Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - migratory waterbirds section. The Australian Government is conserving migratory waterbirds through a number of international agreements such as the Ramsar Convention and the     Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), and throughout the East Asian- Australasian Flyway, bilateral migratory bird agreements with Japan (JAMBA) and China (CAMBA).

• Feathers, Flyways and Friends
• Geelong’s Wetlands. A good web-site on the wetlands in Geelong and a shorebird conservation partnership between the City of Nagoya in Japan and the City of Greater Geelong.  Both areas have web-cams you can use to watch the birds in either city.
• Global Flyway Network. The Global Flyway Network (GFN) is a partnership between researchers worldwide who are devoted to long term — usually demographic — work on long distance migrating shorebirds.

• Hunter Bird Observers Club
• Hunter Wetlands Centre Australia. The Hunter Wetland Centre Australia aims to increase understanding of and appreciation for wetlands through communication, education and public awareness.

• Partnership for the East Asian–Australasian Flyway
• Queensland Wader Study Group (QWSG). QWSG homepage, a special interest group of Birds Queensland.

• USGS Western Ecological Research Center – Bar-tailed Godwit Story. Maps and descriptions of the long journey of a Bar-tailed Godwit that travelled from New Zealand to Alaska and back again.

• Victorian Wader Studies Group. The VWSG’s primary objective is to conduct a long-term comprehensive study of waders and terns throughout Victoria. The VWSG is a non-profit organisation and is made up of around 140 volunteers.

• Wetland Care Australia
• Wetlands International – Oceania. Provides and supports regional initiatives for greater awareness of, and attention to, wetlands conservation. It identifies the responsible government agencies and NGOs in each country in the Oceania region and strives to provide or locate technical and financial support to national priority actions for wetland conservation.

• WWF Australia. WWF-Australia is part of the WWF International Network – the world’s largest independent conservation organisation – whose mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.